In Android, to get time and date you have to first create the object of calender then you can format it using simpledateformat class according to your need. At last it returns you a date and time as per your format in String return type.

Here is the sample code for getting date and time as string.

Code :

public String getDateTime()	{
	Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance(); 
	SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss");
	return df.format(c.getTime());
}